( 2 ° ) 
Ibme little diftance from it. (It being 
only the edges of both wings that are 
to fit clofe to the cork, not the wings 
to lie flat on it.) The wings are then to 
be expanded (Vide Plate) with a fine 
needle, or fome fharp-pointed inftru- 
ment. 
The upper edge of the fuperior 
wings is to be placed in a line with 
the head of the infect ; and they are 
to be kept in this fituation by means 
of little braces, made of card paper, 
cut in the fhape reprefented in the 
Plate. Thefe mult be proportioned 
to the fize of the wings, and fitted to 
their lhape, by being more or lefs 
bent. By thefe means, the Ipots, 
&c. on both wings are made con- 
fpicuous, and the infedt appears to 
much greater advantage. 
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